Search
“Service Connects Us to Each Other and the Community”
… public service and family figured prominently in the Commencement ceremony held at the Harvard Kennedy School … on June 3. Dean David Ellwood began by noting the dozens of national flags decorating the room, each representing the country of one or more of the school's imminent degree recipients, …
Seeing Stars
… “We’ll be able to see the beginning of the universe as we know it today,” says … colleagues worldwide are also joined in a terrestrial enterprise: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) , an extraordinary …
Issue: May-June 2013
A Scientific Windfall for the University?
… , and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, according to an October 26 article in … "Reshaping the Science Center," page 68), has a history of Harvard-linked research activity. Several of its past and …
Issue: January-February 2002
The Dean Discloses His “D”
… On Labor Day afternoon, some 1,600 freshmen, gathered from 49 states and 65 countries into Sanders Theatre … Church, learned that recently appointed interim dean of Harvard College Donald Pfister—“Like you, I’ve just moved in, and like you, I will be moving out of the Yard when classes end”—had barely mustered a D in …
Endowment Value Rises to $32.7 Billion
… HIGHLIGHTS: Endowment valued at $32.7 billion as of June 30, up $2.0 billion (6.5 percent) from $30.7 billion … and comes close to returns recently reported by some other institutions. As the University set about raising a lot … to $32.7 billion … 1508 … 1511 … 1511 … Endowment Value Rises to $32.7 Billion … article …
A Dashboard for Artificial Intelligence
… Much has been made of the inscrutability of generative artificial-intelligence … author’s opinions are shaping what they read. The danger arises when users face content from AI models without …
Making Art Work
… At Baltimore’s Johnston Square Elementary School, hundreds of students and staffers pour through the doors twice a day, braving intersections where cars … crashes involving pedestrians or cyclists, and a 27 percent rise in drivers yielding to pedestrians with the right of …
Issue: September-October 2022
Extracting the Woodchuck
… It’s not often that a poet is famous enough to become the target of character assassination 50 years after his … Joyce Carol Oates who wrote critically, in 1988, about the rise of “pathography,” a variety of literary biography …
Issue: January-February 2014
Off the Shelf
… The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, by Gordon S. Wood, Ph.D. ’64 …
Issue: November-December 2011
Carrying a “Heavy Pack”
… “As you know, when you leave Cambridge on Thursday, the pack doesn’t get any lighter,” retired Navy Vice Admiral … at Sanders Theatre, before delivering the oath to the new officers. “You enter into a profession of arms and service,” … book is face down. “To turn that book over, you’ve had to rise to the truth by being open to honest dialogue. You’ve …
Classroom in the Cloud
… Even as David J. Malan enjoyed the news that Computer Science 50, “Introduction to Computer … By mid September, well before the October 15 launch of CS50x, the all-online version ( cs50.net/x ), some 53,000 … Square office building, surrounded by technology enterprises and budding new ventures. Although a nonprofit, edX is …
Issue: November-December 2012
Vintage Vitality
… ’83, received a startling finding from a physical exam: in the previous year, his stature had shrunk from six feet, two inches, to six-one. A medical workup showed a “lot of osteoporosis. I had the spine of a 70-year-old man, … were compressed and all my disks flattened. This was a surprise. I was in good condition—I’d worn out two indoor …
Issue: November-December 2009
A Pianist on the World Stage
… Aristo Sham ’19, winner of last month’s New York International Piano Competition (NYIPC), is no stranger to the big stage—he’s been playing the piano since he was three … Conservatory (NEC), won the competition’s first prize of $10,000, plus concert and recital appearances to come. …
A Vision for the Arts
… The arts must assume a more central role in the intellectual life of the campus, and this goal should remain a priority even … in a December report. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office Stephen Greenblatt The arts are “at once everywhere, …
Issue: March-April 2009
Dining with Bogart and Bergman
… One talent distinguishes the few chefs who are truly gifted from those who are merely … Several weeks ago, at lunch, I had a gentrified version of this popular pleasure at the Casablanca restaurant in … entrées start at $15 for the almond-ricotta dumplings and rise to $23 for a peppered sirloin. The wine list offers …